lo

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

interj. Used to attract attention or to show surprise.

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adj. Informal spelling of low.

interj. Look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).

hello ('lo; see hallo)

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

interj. Look; see; behold; observe.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Look! see! behold! observe!—used to invoke or direct the particular attention of a person to some object or subject of interest.

n. A North American Indian.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Middle English, from Old English lā.

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From Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā (exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy). Conflated in Middle English by lo! (interjection), a corruption of lok!, loke! ("look!") (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu ("lo"). See also look.

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Variant of low.

Examples

P&G's researchers have found that while generally frugal spenders, Hispanics are also willing to splurge on the types of premium household goods that P&G makes, subscribing to the phrase "lo barato sale caro," meaning that cheap things may ultimately prove costly.

The word lo'gos itself has at times the metonymical sense here given to it, and therefore en anoi'xei tou sto'mato's is most naturally taken without emphasis as equivalent to, when I open my mouth, i.e. when called upon to speak.

I subscribe to what Alejo Carpentier called 'lo maravilloso real', that the history and geography of the Caribbean and Latin America is so baroque and extreme that it seems either fictional or magical to outsiders.

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The first message ever to be sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The message itself was simply the word "login." The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was "lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later.